Physical Infrastructure Management

As a part of the N1 Provisioning Server initialization process, the Control Center performs resource and wiring validation. This validation enables the Control Center to have a complete physical topology map of all resources within an I-Fabric. The wiring validation provides an automated way of confirming the physical wiring map of equipment in a given data center. The Control Center's ability to successfully manage the virtual wiring of a logical server farm relies on the integrity of the physical wiring of the resources within an I-Fabric. Automating this physical wiring validation removes a common source of errors in an I-Fabric, namely the potential for human error caused by incorrectly cabling the physical infrastructure.

The Control Center uses this wiring data to make resource allocation decisions. Physical infrastructure data is stored in a database that you can access using the Control Center CLI.